Our story

Forno Lupo started with a secondhand oven, a borrowed truck and a family recipe from Salerno. Nico and Daniela Lupo built the oven dome brick by brick in 2014, in a room that used to be a shoe repair shop.

Ten years later the neighbors still come in on Tuesday for the Rabe, the kids still press their faces to the oven window and Nico still stretches every pie himself on Friday nights.

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Hands pressing and stretching fresh pizza dough on a floured counter

How we got here

1987
Nonna Teresa opens a bakery in Salerno. The starter we still use is born there.
2014
Nico and Daniela open on East Passyunk with nine tables and one oven.
2019
The back room opens for birthdays, and the Lupo pie joins the menu.
2024
Order ahead for pickup launches, and the oven gets a new dome.

A cook scattering cheese over a pizza before it goes in the oven — **Nico**Makes every dough ball and still works the oven on Fridays

Three finished pizzas with different toppings on a table — **Daniela**Runs the dining room and every table on it

A pepperoni pizza being cut with a pizza wheel — **Zia Carla**Cuts the pies, fills the cannoli, shares opinions